The last 3 days have been incredible. Bianca and I have been rotating our time between Linda and town as we purchase the final bibles for the Linda Compound Library. Some dearly loving families back home at Calvary Baptist Church have lovingly offered to sponsor some vernacular bibles to purchase After working with the Baptist Society of Zambia as well as the Bible Society of Zambia we have officialy over 35 bibles for the bibles. 15 of which will be given to those who recently accepted Christ while the rest will stay in light of Hope for individuals to come in and read.
On Friday we also had an incredible outreach opportunity. Through Grass Roots Soccer as well as Tiny and Tim Friends collboration with LOH, we had the first VCT in Linda compound official outreach in over 3 years. Over 50 children got tested and many adults got tested as well. In order to attract the community we held two large soccer tournaments to bring in the youth and much of the community to come watch. IT was most impressive to see the tents, and hundreds of adults being educated on what VCT and HIV prevention. It's a disease that has ravaged this compound, as hundreds of lives were reached today through testing, education, as well as through outreaches, and sensitization.
This morning, Bianca and I visited the well known Kabwata village in Lusaka which sells lots of African carvings and trinkets. Through the bargaining, I was able to walk out with probably $500 worth of stuff for abaout $20 after giving away a few shirts a lot of hand sanitizer and trading away a lot of packets of gum.
In other news I also got to meet my favorite friend Jeremiah from two years ago, a young man who is on fire for god. I met him two years ago, he is a professional cricket player in Zambia who is also a police officer and yet the lord has blessed hiim with an incredible zeal for Christ which was a huge part of the reason I returned back to Zambia. With more time
I will write more about him in the near future.
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